Lifting student attendance, as well as understanding the drivers for non-attendance through data, are government priorities ...

Why has the Curriculum matauranga project chosen these competencies (of relating to others, managing self, participating and thinking, using languages symbols and texts), why now and what next?

Since 1996 in Aotearoa/New Zealand, we have had a bicultural early childhood curriculum, Te Whariki (Ministry of Education, 1996). This document was developed with regard to the early childhood ...

The role and place of Māori people as the indigenous people of this land has influenced the culturally centred development of evaluation in Aotearoa New Zealand. Within this article the cultural value ...

Children’s citizenship in early childhood education and care is the root of democracy, equity, and sustainability. In Aotearoa New Zealand, Te Whāriki has a strong aspiration for children as competent ...

Advancing research-based classroom assessment (CA) in K-12 schools is a difficult and often opaque process. Rather than challenges that can be overcome, educators striving to more fully implement ...

When I wrote the first blog post in this series about uncertainty, I had students in mind. I set out to explore the challenge of helping students learn to “be” in uncertainty, given the volatile, ...

With the introduction of PAT Tuhituhi | PAT Writing, NZCER is now offering a pair of introductory webinars for this new auto-marked, online assessment tool. These will be brief half-hour sessions with ...

As schools gear up for Term 1, assessment will be at the forefront of many teachers' minds. NZCER offers many options for assessing literacy and mathematics, from our suite of Progressive Achievement ...

What happens when people become critically aware of our local Māori and colonial histories? How does this awareness impact on our own sense of self, and connection to place? How might this awareness ...

As I noted in my last post, it’s not uncommon to find that people working in game development want to make a contribution to education. But it’s one thing to aspire to this, and another thing to ...

This post is the beginning of a short series to share highlights from NZCER's 2017 Games for Learning conference. Harko Brown was the first featured speaker at the 2017 Games for Learning conference.